The Nobel Foundation - Previous Chairmen of the Nobel Foundation

Previous Chairmen of the Nobel Foundation

Boström, Gustaf, FD h.c, Prime Minister, 1900-1907

Wachtmeister, Fredrik, Count, FD h.c, JD h.c, Chancellor of the Swedish Universities, Foreign Minister, 1907-1918

Schück, Henrik, FD, TD h.c, Professor of History of Literature, President of Uppsala University, Member of the Swedish Academy, 1918-1929

Hammarskjöld, Hjalmar, JD h.c, FD h.c, Governor, Prime Minister, Member of the Swedish Academy, 1929-1947

Ekeberg, Birger, JD, FD h.c, Marshal of the Realm, Cabinet Minister, Member of the Swedish Academy, 1947-1960

Tiselius, Arne, FD, MD h.c, Professor of Biochemistry at Uppsala University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1948, 1960-1964

Lindblad, Bertil, FD, Professor, Astronomer of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1965

von Euler, Ulf, MD, Professor of Physiology at Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1970, 1965-1975

Bergström, Sune, MD, Professor of Chemistry at Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1982, 1975-1987

Gyllensten, Lars, MD, Professor, Writer, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1987-1993

Samuelsson, Bengt, MD, Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1982, b. 1934; 1993-2005

Previous Executive Directors

Santesson, Henrik, JK, Assistant Circuit Judge, 1900-1912

Sederholm, Henrik, JK, Assistant Circuit Judge, 1913-1929

Sohlman, Ragnar, Executor of Nobel's Last Will, Assistant Under-Secretary of the National Board of Trade, 1929-1946

Hammarskiöld, Sven, JK, Justice of Appeal, 1946-1948

Ståhle, Nils K, JK, JD h.c, Envoy, 1948-1972

Ramel, Stig, Baron, JPM, MD h.c, JD h.c, FD h.c, 1972-1992